Tensegrity Structures: Modeling, Analysis, Design, and Construction

Tensegrity systems have become a popular topic in recent years among structural engineers, architects, researchers in the world of space structures under the driving forces of pursuing lightness and innovation in forms as is the tendency of the contemporary research. There are already several existing books on tensegrity structures most of them present approaches to mathematical form-finding and self-stressing of those structures. By contrast, this book is devoted to helping the readers achieve a deeper understanding of self-stress implementation and fundamental mechanical behavior of tensegrity structures. Both students and professionals will find material of interest to them in the book.